That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Walk on the path of lights.

Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

We are awash in the revealed world.

The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.